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power supply I am using is an Opus 120. It's rated for 120 watts and has powered my before build fair nice. I ran into one snag that I didn't anticipate, although. The motherboard uses a 12v P4 ATX connector (see pic on the tangible website) as well as the criterion 20-24pin ATX connector. The power supply I have (and maximum that I've seen) do not have this connector merged into their harness.
To solve this problem, you can both buy a molex to P4 adapter, or you can mod your existing cabling harness and increase the P4 connector. I chose to mod my existing wiring harness and increase the P4 connector to 1 of the existing molex connectors. Basically, I cut off the P4 connector from a regular ATX power afford, stripped the wires,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and crammed them into an existing molex articulation. See the pictures on the site to watch what I mean.
After everything was setup, I installed the full Windows XP Pro with SP3. I opted not to use TinyXP because I felt that it could occasion issues down the road with all the drivers it has stripped out. After the installation, I installed the usual Winamp, VLC media player, SpeedFan, iGuidance, Centrafuse, and finally the drivers. Instead of configuring Windows to hibernate after the car was shut off,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I chose to shutdown completely because I've had lots of issues with hibernation such as it not resuming correctly.
With 1GB of RAM and a 2.5" 80GB 4200RPM hard drive, the performance isn't too bad. You would meditation that a 4200RPM hard steer would be kind of inert, yet I can hardly notice it. Windows starts up from a cold boot speedily and so do all of the programs I use. I'm never left waiting for the afterward melody to load alternatively a program to open.
The cheap power expense of the board namely too very noticeable. With my antique embark, the CPU temperature would all be at least 45C upon shoe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and heave to a little over 60C after creature accustom as awhile. On a cold morn, at approximately 55F,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], The Intel Atom managed to boot up at 30C and later 20 minutes, it had merely risen to 35C! Now, while I open my glove carton,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there's not extra peppery climate oozing out. The wind inside the mitten box is about the same temperature for the climate in the hut! However, the temperatures will diverge based above the ambient temperature inside the hut, so the CPU will scamper hotter above a warmer daytime. On one 80F day, the CPU boots at 30C and rises to about 55-60C, still no wrong on a very lukewarm day.
All in entire,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Intel D945GCLF2 is a large purchase. At only $89.99 from Mini-box.com, you get tons of features, and best of all, a twin kernel processor. With low power consumption, low temperatures, and tall rendition it seems as whether the board was made explicitly for carputer method, in which it excels.